When running a KVM guest on a system with NOHZ_FULL enabled, and the KVM guest running with idle=poll mode, we still get wakeups of the rcuos/N threads.
This problem has already been solved for user space by telling the RCU subsystem that the CPU is in an extended quiescent state while running user space code. This patch series extends that code a little bit to make it usable to track KVM guest space, too. I tested the code by booting a KVM guest with idle=poll, on a system with NOHZ_FULL enabled on most CPUs, and a VCPU thread bound to a CPU. In a 10 second interval, rcuos/N threads on other CPUs got woken up several times, while the rcuos thread on the CPU running the bound and alwasy running VCPU thread never got woken up once. Thanks to Christian Borntraeger, Paul McKenney, Paulo Bonzini, Frederic Weisbecker, and Will Deacon for reviewing and improving earlier versions of this patch series. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
